parquet

It mixes images of parquet floors; spindly, naked trees; and Sol LeWitt-style stripes in a geometric composition that juxtaposes inside and out, black and white, relaxation and activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Built in 2008, it features parquet de Versailles flooring, 18th-century French Louis XV–carved stone fireplaces, and hand-carved marble bathtubs.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 5, 2026

When it was suggested he might become defence secretary in a previous reshuffle, he said that if removed, "you will see nail marks on the parquet floor in my office".

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023

For example, parquet floors — in which wood slats are arranged in repeating, geometric patterns — were once all the rage in the 1960s and 1970s in New York.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

His hands took on the pattern of the parquet floor and a bit of the color of the rug.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths.

From Time Magazine Archive

She turned toward the interior of the room and she stamped her foot on the parqueted floor.

From The Indiscretion of the Duchess by Anthony Hope

As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather-light, so—danceth sleep upon me.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The ground was covered with a parqueted flooring of rare wood, forming concentric patterns.

From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

A lady who is to tread a velvet carpet or a parqueted floor does not need a wooden shoe; she needs a satin slipper or boot.

From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood